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  • Scientist Says Obesity Needs to be Addressed Like Climate Change

    By Selwyn Duke The health police are at it again.  One Professor Philip James, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said obesity was such a big problem worldwide that, writes BBC News, ". . . action was needed now, even without clear evidence of the best options." Yup, sounds like the Al…

  • BBC News: Whistle-blower site taken offline

    By Selwyn Duke About a month ago I wrote a piece titled "The Race for the American Mind," which deals with free speech and discusses ways in which commentary on the Internet can be easily stifled.  Among the methods I discussed was one relating to domain registrars.  I wrote:

  • A Lesson in Reading the Media

    By Selwyn Duke While the job of the media should be to inform and clarify, our mainstream press long ago abdicated that responsibility.   It now specializes in muddying the waters and journalistic sleight-of-hand, and I came across a prime example of this just yesterday.

  • Times Leaking Oil Again

    Well, well, so the New York Times is cutting jobs again.  All I can say is that it couldn’t have happened to a nicer paper.  Reports Jeff Bercovici:

  • Why ‘superbugs,’ TB, leprosy and other pestilences are invading U.S

    World Net Daily has a piece about how diseases once eliminated in the U.S. are now making a frightening comeback.  And they point out the obvious, which is that the huge influx of Third World immigrants is largely to blame.

  • Florida Wants to Suppress Facts That Contradict Evolution

    World Net Daily has a piece today about how the state of Florida aims to institute a science teaching standard that would teach evolution as fact and ignore facts that might contradict it.  Writes WND:

  • Exposing China

    Recently I was emailed a link to a site named "unmadeinchina.org."  It’s designed to expose the evils of the despotic Chinese regime.  While some of the presentations are definitely over the top, it does provide valuable information and I think those who run it are doing the world a service.

  • Chesterton on War

    Nevertheless, there is a queer quality in that time [the Middles Ages]; which, while it was international was also internal and intimate. War, in the wide modern sense, is possible, not because more men disagree, but because more men agree.

  • Reconsidering the Inquisition

    A columnist named Vox Day wrote an excellent piece in which he puts the Spanish Inquisition in perspective.   Day, and intelligent man who has obviously done his homework (I can’t say much for his haircut, though), starts out:

  • The Homosexual Mafia

    A British columnist named Richard LittleJohn recently wrote a very funny column about a very tragic form of social devolution.  The title is "Now they want to ban mums and dads," and it’s about the advance of the homosexual agenda in the U.K.